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Bunton, John David

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Electrical engineer

Summary

John David Bunton is a Senior Principal Research Engineer in the Wireless Technology Laboratory of the CSIRO's Information and Communications Technology (ICT) centre. In this position he has been project manager or chief investigator for wireless based research initiatives with a wide array of applications, and this has led to involvement with NASA and the Australian coal-mining industry.

He was part of the Gigabit Wireless project which, in 2007, was awarded the CSIRO Chairman's Medal and Engineers Australia's Engineering Excellence Award.

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Bunton received the following CSIRO medals:

1992 - CSIRO Medal for Research Achievement (with John O'Sullivan and colleagues in the Fast Fourier Technology Team) for developing and applying the Fast Fourier Transform technology;

2007 - CSIRO Chairman's Medal for Science and Engineering Excellence as a member of the Gigabit Wireless Team for the development of the world's fastest and most spectrally efficient 6 gigabit per second wireless millimetre-wave communications link.

Chronology

1973
Education - Bachelor of Science, Sydney University
1975
Education - Bachelor of Engineering (Hons), Sydney University
1982
Education - Ph.D. , University of Sydney
1983 - 1986
Career position - Engineer, Fleurs Radio Telescope, University of Sydney
1986 - 1988
Career position - Engineer-in-Chief, Fleurs Radio Telescope, University of Sydney
1989 -
Career position - Experimental Scientist (later Senior Principal Research Engineer), CSIRO Division of Radiophysics (now ICT)
1992
Award - CSIRO Medal for Research Achievement (with colleagues)
2000
Award - Australian Coal Association Research Program (ACARP) Excellence Award
2007
Award - CSIRO Chairman's Medal for Science and Engineering Excellencel (with colleagues)
2007
Award - Engineering Excellence Award for the Multi-Gigabit, mm-wave Wireless, Engineers Australia

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